Feltip

Their little drawing. A whole new world.

Bring your child’s drawings to life, collect their characters in a magical gallery, and turn the creations you love into keepsakes to treasure.

  • Free to start
  • Nothing redrawn
  • Private by default
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Keepsakes delivered to the UK, US, Canada, Australia and 21 countries in Europe.

Their photo of the drawing: a queen in a sequinned dress, pencil and stickers on a sketchbook page, taken on a phone.
They drew it
The same queen lifted off her page by the app: the pencil, the sequins and the stickers exactly as drawn, standing on a plain surface with a shadow.
Brought to life

A real drawing by a child in the founder’s family, lifted off its paper by the app exactly as drawn.

Go on, choose for them:

The river is wide and quick. There is a fallen tree, and further along, a line of flat stones.

Which way across?

The tree bends under them but it holds.

Halfway over, the tree dips. The river is very loud from up here.

They chose, so the story went that way. The other way is a different scene:

With their drawing, the rest of the story is theirs to choose.

Put their drawing in the story, free

The stones are slippery, so they go slowly, one at a time.

One stone. Two stones. The third one wobbles.

They chose, so the story went that way. The other way is a different scene:

With their drawing, the rest of the story is theirs to choose.

Put their drawing in the story, free

A real scene from Dinosaur Rescue, with two real drawings in it. Tap a choice and it plays as it does in the app.

You know that pile of drawings?

  • The fridge

  • The drawer

  • A folder

  • The camera roll

Children make hundreds of drawings. We love every one of them. Then most end up in a drawer, a box or a camera roll.

Feltip gives those drawings somewhere to live, and something to do.

How Feltip works

  1. A phone photo of a child's painting on a carpet: a brown paint face on cream card, with googly eyes and marker glasses.
    1Photograph itThey draw on paper, as they do. You take a photo; phone photos are fine.
  2. The painted face lifted off its card, standing on a plain surface with a shadow: the paint, the googly eyes and the glasses exactly as made.
    2Watch it come to lifeTheir actual drawing is lifted off the paper, exactly as made, and stands up in a painted world.
  3. The same painted face in a story, standing in a painted forest beside another child's drawing of a queen.
    3Play it, keep it, share itPut it in a story where they choose what happens at each turn, print where it ended, or send a private link to family.

It starts on paper and ends with a question: what will they draw next? Nothing plays on its own.

Everything that happens to a drawing

Not a story they watch. One they help make.

  • Create

    The hero is something they drew.

  • Choose

    At each turn the story asks them, and the choice is theirs.

  • Imagine

    “Ask what would happen if they could not cross back at all.”

    A question for you to ask out loud.

  • Tell the story

    “Ask your child to say out loud what happens next, in their own words.”

    A question for you to ask out loud.

No scores, no lessons: something to make up together. How to do it with or without us

For you, before you start

  • About half a minute to look at a drawing, about 10 minutes to play a story.
  • Every drawing and finished story is kept in their world, to play again.
  • Their next drawing is a new character.

Six stories to step into

The same two drawings, in every one. Tap a story.

Brothers and sisters can share a story: two characters, from any of your children.

Choose a story to see their drawings in
A real Feltip scene from Magical Forest: one child's sequinned queen and another child's googly-eyed painting, each lifted off its paper exactly as made and standing on it, with a shadow, in a painted place.
A real Feltip scene from Dinosaur Rescue: one child's sequinned queen and another child's googly-eyed painting, each lifted off its paper exactly as made and standing on it, with a shadow, in a painted place.
A real Feltip scene from Space Mission: one child's sequinned queen and another child's googly-eyed painting, each lifted off its paper exactly as made and standing on it, with a shadow, in a painted place.
A real Feltip scene from Monster Hunt: one child's sequinned queen and another child's googly-eyed painting, each lifted off its paper exactly as made and standing on it, with a shadow, in a painted place.
A real Feltip scene from Christmas Adventure: one child's sequinned queen and another child's googly-eyed painting, each lifted off its paper exactly as made and standing on it, with a shadow, in a painted place.
A real Feltip scene from Halloween Adventure: one child's sequinned queen and another child's googly-eyed painting, each lifted off its paper exactly as made and standing on it, with a shadow, in a painted place.

We don’t “improve” their drawing

  • Crooked smile? Keep it.

  • Five legs? Keep them.

  • Colour outside the lines? Definitely keep it.

We take the paper away and leave everything they drew. One day the wobbly bits are exactly what you’ll want to remember.

A phone photo of a child's drawing of a queen in a sequinned dress, taped and glittered onto a sketchbook page.
The same queen, cut out of the photo with the background removed — every sequin and pencil line unchanged.
What they drewTheir character
A real drawing by the founder's niece. Stickers, sequins and all.

Drag the line. Same crown, same sequins, same wobble.

See more real cut-outs
  • A phone photo of a child's drawing of a queen in a sequinned dress, on a spiral sketchbook page with foam stickers stuck round her.
    The photoPencil, tape and stickers
    The queen alone, cut out round her own outline: her pencil crown, the taped and sequinned dress, her hands and the lilac pencil shading beside her skirt. The page, the spiral binding and the stickers that were stuck round her are gone. A thin line of the page's foot is left under her hem.
    Just the figureThe queen alone. The page and the loose stickers go.
  • A phone photo of a child's pencil drawing of a penguin, shaded grey with a pale belly, on a sheet of lined paper torn from a pad, lying on a carpet under a lamp.
    The photoPencil on lined paper
    The penguin lifted off its lined paper: the grey pencil shading, the black outline and the pale belly are whole, and the printed lines, the torn edge and the carpet are gone.
    Just what they drewThe penguin, shading and all. The rulings and the carpet go.
  • A phone photo of a child's pencil drawing of a rose with a stem and two leaves, on a ruled notebook page with a printed header and margin, photographed on a striped cloth. A drawing on the page beneath shows through faintly.
    The photoPencil on a ruled page
    The rose alone, lifted off its page: the flower, the stem and both leaves in pencil, with the printed rulings, the header, the margin and the ghost of the page beneath gone. Where a ruling crossed the stem or a leaf a short dash of the paper is left, and a few pale specks sit beside the petals.
    Just what they drewThe rose, its stem and both leaves. The rulings, the header and the page beneath go.
  • A phone photo of a child's painting lying on a carpet: a brown paint face on cream card, with googly eyes glued on and glasses drawn in marker.
    The photoPoster paint and googly eyes
    The painted face lifted off its card: the paint, the splatter and the googly eyes, with the card and the carpet gone.
    Just the paintLifted off the card, splatter and all.

Which cut do they get? Everything on the page to start, and a character in a story is cut from that. You can keep just what they drew, and rub out what isn’t theirs.

Four real drawings from the founder’s family, one run of the cut-out each, nothing tidied afterwards. The top of the queen’s page, where she wrote her name, is kept out of every picture.

Keep their adventure

A mockup of the framed print, made from the real print file: the last scene of an adventure, with the two drawings standing in it.
Framed print30 × 30 cm print, mounted£75 · delivery included

When a story ends, its last scene can be printed, with their own drawing standing in it.

You see the exact print file and confirm it before you pay, and it prints exactly as you saw it.

See them all in the shop

The shop makes each from one drawing, today. A story’s last scene is ordered when the story ends.

Other ways to keep it

UK prices, delivery included. The shop shows yours.

In the US? See it in dollars

Coming soon

Their year of imagination

A printed book of their year: favourite drawings, the characters who kept coming back, your notes. Today, their year is a page in their world.

Mockups, until we photograph our own: the real print files on blank photographs of the frame, canvas and jigsaw; the stickers and magnet on a surface of ours.

Feltip Halloween

Turn their drawing into something that comes alive after dark.

For the bedroom wall, and the moment the light goes off.

A mockup of the glow-in-the-dark print with the lights on: a child's drawing of a queen in a sequinned dress, exactly as drawn, on a white sheet.
Lights on
The same print with the lights off: the page glows blue-green around every line and sequin.
Lights off

Mockups: the drawing is real and so is the print file.

There is a story to play too, with their own characters in it.Halloween Adventure

Feltip Christmas

Christmas, drawn by your child.

For grandparents, teachers and the neighbours.

A mockup of the Christmas card, a portrait card standing on its envelope: "Happy Christmas" above a child's drawing of a queen in a sequinned dress.

A mockup: the drawing is real and so is the print file.

There is a story to play too, with their own characters in it.Christmas Adventure

Make something together, from anywhere

  1. 1You choose what to draw

    “Draw a friend for Rex.” “Draw where Rex lives.” One tap, and you get a private link.

  2. 2Grandma draws on her phone

    She opens the link, draws with a finger or sends a photo of paper, and adds a line. No account, no email.

  3. 3You decide

    You see it first. Say yes and it’s lifted off the paper and stands in their gallery, from her.

The link lasts a month and you can switch it off any time. Nothing a relative sends goes anywhere but to you.

Share their imagination with the people who love them

A private link shows grandparents their drawings and the stories they finished, each as it went, with what they chose. First name only, and nothing is made public. And the last scene of an adventure can be printed and posted straight to them.

The picture of a drawing brought to life is yours to save and send however you like. It carries our name, never theirs.

What they see
Making a private link for Grandma: who it is for, what she can see, and a Make a link button.
What Grandma sees with no app and no account: This is Ava's imagination, with her drawings, the replay, and a way to send something.
The latest drawing on Grandma's page, and Queenie under Who keeps coming back.
Further down Grandma's page: a link to send Ava something from their world.
  1. Make a private link for Grandma
  2. She opens it. No app, no account
  3. The latest drawing, and who keeps coming back
  4. She can send something from their world
Making a gift card: A gift from Ava's imagination, with Ava's drawing chosen for the front.
The gift card as Grandma will see it: Ava made this for you, happy birthday, with a note from the family.
A grandparent's page to send Ava a print of one of her own drawings, with a Give this button.
  1. Put their drawing on a gift card
  2. See it as Grandma will
  3. Family give prints of their drawings

Prices blurred in these screens.

Real screens from a demo world: two real drawings from the founder’s family, made-up names.

Their imagination stays theirs

  • Private by default

    No public gallery, no profile, no child’s name in a link.

  • Never used to train models

    And never in our marketing without your written yes.

  • You choose who sees it

    Share a private link with family. Switch it off any time.

  • Delete whenever you want

    One drawing or everything. The files go with it.

The full privacy page, in plain words

Made by one parent in the UK. The two drawings on this page are from our own family: a niece’s queen and a son’s painted face.

The things parents ask first

Is it really free?

Yes. Adding drawings, their world and the adventures cost nothing, and there's no card to enter. You pay only if you choose a keepsake or an extra.

What actually happens to the drawing?

You photograph it. We lift it off the paper exactly as drawn and keep it in your child's world. From there it can be a character in an adventure, alongside anything else they've drawn.

Isn't this just more screen time?

It's on a screen, but it's made to be done together. Before each choice there's one question for you to ask out loud, and the choosing is theirs. Nothing plays on its own.

Who writes the stories?

They're written in advance, every word, and they're the same for every family. Nothing is made up while you play. What's new each time is the cast, and what they choose.

Do you redraw or 'improve' the drawing?

Never. What you see is the photo you took, with the paper taken away.

Can brothers and sisters be in the same adventure?

Yes. Two characters in one story, from any of the children in your family.

What can we keep?

The last scene of a finished adventure can become an art print, a framed print, a canvas, a jigsaw, a fridge magnet, or a glow-in-the-dark print or framed glow print where the characters are the part that glows. The Christmas story's can go on ten cards. A drawing on its own can become any of those, or stickers. All made to order: you see the exact print file and confirm it before you pay, and it is printed exactly as you saw it.

Where do you deliver?

Keepsakes are made to order and delivered to the UK, US, Canada, Australia and 21 countries in Europe: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain. For a US address, art prints, framed prints, canvases and glow-in-the-dark prints are printed in the US; cards, stickers, magnets and jigsaws aren't sent there. You see what can reach you, and what it costs there, before you pay. Playing is free wherever you are.

Why not just keep photos of the drawings on my phone?

A camera roll keeps the picture. It can't put the dinosaur from March in a story with the rocket from July, notice that the same cat has turned up four times, or open to Grandma without handing over your phone.

What happens to the photos of my child's art?

They stay in your child's record for as long as you keep it — never used to train models, never shown to anyone, never in our marketing without your written yes. Delete any drawing, or everything, whenever you like.

How is this different from a personalised book or a story app?

A personalised book changes the name on the cover, and a story app starts with someone else's characters. Here the hero is the thing your child drew, exactly as they drew it, and the story goes the way they choose.

Is this an AI thing?

Partly, and we'll say exactly where. The painted places the stories happen in were made with an image model, once, from our written descriptions; a child's drawing is never sent to it. A model also reads each drawing, so we can tell a dinosaur from a rocket. Nothing ever redraws, changes or writes over their drawing, and the stories are written in advance.

  1. Draw
  2. Play
  3. Choose
  4. Keep
  5. Draw again

Their next adventure starts with a drawing

One photo and their first name, and the story is theirs to steer.

At least 10 characters.

Then their name, then the drawing.

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